Category Archives : South America: Ecuador

A series of mad dash bus tranfers, topped by a driver who impatiently began to back up the bus while the guys were still loading our bikes underneath, made for an adventurous arrival to the coast. Our first stop at Montañita was dictated by the bus with the largest cargo hold (we’re always keenly aware […]

Over the past seventy-two hours, some combination of the three of us has been exploding from multiple vectors simultaneously. We’re attributing it to altitude sickness, hypothermia, beef intestine soup, or the soup that included a chicken head and both feet per bowl. For James though, we actually think it was the blackberries we bought yesterday […]

Of the 250 km we’ve ridden so far, only 15 of those have been on asphalt. What a blur to suddenly be riding faster than 4 km/hr! After starting on the southwest side of Quito on Jan 2, we rode up and out of the city through the first of many steep sloped farming communities. […]